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False document
{{short description|Technique employed to create verisimilitude in a work of fiction}}
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{{See| Pseudepigrapha}}
A '''false document''' is a technique by which an author aims to increase [[verisimilitude]] in a work of fiction by inventing and inserting or mentioning documents that appear to be factual.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Baker |first1=Timothy C. |title=Contemporary Scottish Gothic |chapter=Authentic Inauthenticity: The Found Manuscrip(contracted; show full)* [[Alternate reality game]]
* [[A Racial Program for the Twentieth Century]], an anti-Semitic forgery
* [[Donation of Constantine]]
* [[Epistolary novel]]
* [[False documentation]]
* [[Fictional book]]
* [[Forgery]]

* [[Found footage (film technique)]]⏎
* [[Frame tale]]
* [[Literary forgery]]
* [[Fictitious entry]]
* [[Questioned document examination]]
* [[Voynich manuscript]]
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==References==
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{{Cite book|last=Peebles|first=Curtis|title=Watch the Skies! : A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth|date=1994|publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press|isbn=1-56098-343-4|location=Washington|oclc=28506353}}
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[[Category:Narratology]]
[[Category:False documents| ]]